Robert Louis Stevenson

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson